Brasscheck TV heeft een video gebracht waarin aandacht voor de propaganda in de VS waarmee het volk wordt gehersenspoeld door de CIA en de reguliere (massa-) media daar. De regelmatige lezer van dit blog weet dat er een enorm aantal films en series worden gemaakt in de VS, waarin de CIA en de VS in het algemeen, als geweldig en patriottisch worden voorgesteld…… Zo wordt de VS in veel gevallen als slachtoffer neergezet van buitenlandse vijanden, ofwel films en series waarin de VS wordt aangevallen op eigen bodem, dat is in de recente geschiedenis maar één keer gebeurde en dat op 9/11 (2001). Hoewel er nu een hele berg bewijzen op tafel liggen waaruit je maar één conclusie kan trekken, de VS heeft zelf de regie gevoerd over deze aanslagen…… Het is zelfs zo dat de VS het meest heeft geprofiteerd van die door henzelf geregisseerde aanslagen, ofwel ook hier gaat de vlieger niet op dat de VS werd aangevallen…. Uiteraard zijn er al legio films en tv series die 9/11 wel degelijk voorstellen als een aanslag die door terroristen werd beraamd van buiten de VS……
Hetzelfde geldt overigens voor de laatste ‘aanval op de VS’ voor 9/11: de aanval van Japan op Pearl Harbor, hoewel die militaire basis van de VS wat mij betreft niet eens op gebied van de VS ligt…. De VS was van te voren op de hoogte van deze aanval, maar heeft deze willens en wetens door laten gaan, om zo deel te kunnen nemen aan WOII…..
Een figuur als nazimoordenaar Goebbels zou er zijn vingers bij aflikken, zo geraffineerd is de propaganda die in de VS voor haarzelf en tegen haar ‘vijanden’ wordt gemaakt…… ‘Vijand van de VS’ ben je overigens al snel, immers als je niet doet wat de VS van ‘jou als land’ verlangt (of zelfs als persoon), ben je de klos en daar helpt Hollywood maar al te graag bij, niet in de laatste plaats vanwege de subsidies die je daarvoor krijgt als regisseur……..
Moet wel opmerken dat e.e.a wel bijzonder doorzichtig is, echter dat inzicht ontbreekt zeker bij de meeste burgers in de VS, die dan bijvoorbeeld ook inderdaad de idee hadden dat Saddam Hoessein, de vermoorde dictator van Irak, de VS zou kunnen aanvallen met kernraketten….. Het is nu zelfs zo zot dat een groot deel van de VS bevolking serieus is overtuigd van ‘het feit’ dat de VS in feite de oorlog in Vietnam heeft verloren door het verzet van hippies en studenten in de 60er en begin 70er jaren van de vorige eeuw……
In de hieronder opgenomen video van Brasscheck een kort interview met Nick Schou, een auteur van een paar boeken waarin de CIA een hoofdrol speelt in het manipuleren van de reguliere media. Zo noemt hij de Washington Post (WaPo) een waakhond van de CIA, die aanslaat zo gauw de VS en m.n. de CIA onder vuur komt te liggen, dit terwijl de WaPo zich voordoet als een onafhankelijke en objectief nieuws medium, waar de werkelijkheid een walgelijk propagandamachine laat zien……
Zo heeft de WaPo de loopbaan van onderzoeksjournalist Gary Webb vernietigd door haar demonisering van deze geweldige journalist die veel heeft geopenbaard van de Iran-Contra-affaire, waarbij de CIA de straten van Los Angeles overspoelde met cocaïne voor de gekleurde bevolking…… De winsten die daarbij werden gemaakt, werden gebruikt om de contra’s in Nicaragua van wapens en ander oorlogstuig te voorzien……. Vergeet daarbij niet dat de VS drugsgebruikers die een paar keer werden opgepakt met drugs in hun bezit, levenslang heeft vastgezet: ‘3 strikes out…..’ Tegelijkertijd voerde de VS ook destijds al een ‘war on drugs…’ Schou mikt dan ook voornamelijk op de verbintenis tussen die reguliere media en de CIA.
Bekijk deze video van 7 minuten en bedenk de volgende keer als je een film uit de VS ziet hoe de vork echt in de steel zit, films waarin de CIA als een geweldige organisatie wordt neergezet met helden die bereid zijn hun leven op te offeren voor het groter goed, of waarin de VS zogenaamd weer eens wordt aangevallen……
World
class propaganda by the CIA
“There’s
no business like show business”
Nick
Schou author of “Spooked”
World class propaganda by the CIA.
How the CIA works with Hollywood to use entertainment to “teach”
the American people what they do and how the world works.
“There’s no business like show
business.”
Nick Schou author of “Spooked”
interviewed about how the CIA controls Hollywood.
Voor meer berichten over de Iran-Contra-Affaire, de CIA of de DEA (ook verantwoordelijk geweest voor verspreiding van drugs in de VS), klik op het betreffende label, direct onder dit bericht.
Een
voormalige ‘hoge’ medewerker van de Israëlische militaire geheime dienst, Ari Ben-Menashe liet
onlangs in een interview weten dat Jeffrey Epstein en Ghislaine
Maxwell werkten voor de Israëlische geheime dienst……. Volgens deze
figuur werd het seksnetwerk van Epstein gebruikt om vooraanstaande
personen, zoals machtige politici (o.a. Bill Clinton en Tony Blair), te chanteren. Deze geheime dienst
heeft de chantage dienst opgezet en….. gebruikt!
Het
was overigens al duidelijk dat het netwerk van Epstein werd gebruikt
om vooraanstaande politici te chanteren daar zij kinderen seksueel
misbruikten, kinderen die hare kwaadaardigheid Ghislaine Maxwell ‘trash’ noemde, ofwel vuilnis waar
je mee kan doen wat je wilt…….. Vreemd genoeg hebben de reguliere
westerse massamedia vooral aandacht aan Epstein besteed, waar ze zijn
zelfmoord als zeker bestempelden, terwijl het meer dan duidelijk is
dat Epstein werd vermoord en dat moet een overheidsinstantie hebben
gedaan, of deze instantie heeft een ander de opdracht gegeven,
Epstein mocht de rechtszaal nooit bereiken, teveel belangrijke en
machtige figuren zouden van hun voedstuk donderen, neem Trump,
Clinton en ga nog maar een tijdje door…….
Ari
Ben-Menashe heeft overigens wel meer te vertellen, bijvoorbeeld dat
hij in de 80er jaren van de vorige eeuw samen met Robert Maxwell
betrokken was bij de Iran-Contra-Affaire…….. Dezelfde Maxwell
introduceerde Ben-Menashe bij Jeffrey Epstein in het midden van die
jaren 80.
Maxwell
had trouwens een heel netwerk in Israël en daar maakte ook Ariel
Sharon deel van uit, Sharon de beestachtige oorlogsmisdadiger die
verantwoordelijk was voor de massamoord in Sabra en
Shatila, het Palestijnse vluchtelingenkamp en de aangrenzende wijk in Beiroet, Libanon……
Voorafgaand aan een interview met Robert Parry in 2012 over Iran Contra en andere smerige geheime acties in de 80er jaren van de vorige eeuw, ging het huis van Ben-Menashe in Montreal in vlammen op, e.e.a. als gevolg van een aanval met een brandbom waarin een vloeistof die alleen door militairen wordt gebruikt, het is dan ook wel duidelijk dat Israël Ben-Menashe de mond wilde snoeren…….
Eén ding is zeker, de continue westerse steun voor de (nu officieel) fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël, is bepaald niet alleen ingegeven door een schuldgevoel over de holocaust……..
Lees
het volgende artikel geschreven door Whitney Webb en dat eerder
verscheen op MintPressNews en ook jij zal begrijpen dat Epstein zijn
mond moest houden, ofwel hij werd vermoord:
A
recent interview given by a former high-ranking official in Israeli
military intelligence has claimed that Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual
blackmail enterprise was an Israel intelligence operation run for the
purpose of entrapping powerful individuals and politicians in the
United States and abroad.
Since
the apparent death by suicide of Jeffrey Epstein in a Manhattan
prison, much has come to light about his depraved activities and
methods used to sexually abuse underage girls and entrap the rich and
powerful for the purposes of blackmail. Epstein’s ties to
intelligence, described in-depth in a recentMintPress investigative
series,
have continued to receive minimal mainstream media coverage, which
has essentially moved on from the Epstein scandal despite the fact
that his many co-conspirators remain on the loose.
For
those who have examined Epstein’s ties to intelligence, there are
clear links to both U.S. intelligence and Israeli intelligence,
leaving it somewhat open to debate as to which country’s
intelligence apparatus was closest to Epstein and most involved in
his blackmail/sex-trafficking activities. A recent interview given by
a former high-ranking official in Israeli military intelligence has
claimed that Epstein’s sexual blackmail enterprise was an Israel
intelligence operation run for the purpose of entrapping powerful
individuals and politicians in the United States and abroad.
In an
interview with
Zev Shalev, former CBS
News executive
producer and award-winning investigative journalist for Narativ,
the former senior executive for Israel’s Directorate of Military
Intelligence, Ari Ben-Menashe, claimed not only to have met Jeffrey
Epstein and his alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, back in the 1980s,
but that both Epstein and Maxwell were already working
with Israeli intelligence during that time period.
“They
found a niche”
In an
interview last
week with the independent outlet Narativ,
Ben-Menashe, who himself was involved in Iran-Contra arms deals, told
his interviewer Zev Shalev that he had been introduced to Jeffrey
Epstein by Robert Maxwell in the mid-1980s while Maxwell’s and
Ben-Menashe’s involvement with Iran-Contra was ongoing. Ben-Menashe
did not specify the year he met Epstein.
Ben-Menashe
told Shalev that “he [Maxwell] wanted us to accept him [Epstein] as
part of our group …. I’m not denying that we were at the time a
group that it was Nick Davies [Foreign Editor of the
Maxwell-Owned Daily
Mirror],
it was Maxwell, it was myself and our team from Israel, we were doing
what we were doing.” Past reporting by Seymour Hersh and
others revealed
that Maxwell,
Davies and Ben-Menashe were involved in the transfer and sale of
military equipment and weapons from Israel to Iran on behalf of
Israeli intelligence during this time period.
He
then added that Maxwell had stated during the introduction that “your
Israeli bosses have already approved” of Epstein. Shalev later
noted that Maxwell “had an extensive network in Israel at the time,
which included the then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, according to
Ben-Menashe.”
Ben-Menashe
went on to say that he had “met him [Epstein] a few times in
Maxwell’s office, that was it.” He also said he was not aware of
Epstein being involved in arms deals for anyone else he knew at the
time, but that Maxwell wanted to involve Epstein in the arms transfer
in which he, Davies and Ben-Menashe were engaged on Israel’s
behalf.
Ariel
Sharon (right) meets with Robert Maxwell in Jerusalem on Feb. 20,
1990. Photo | AP
However,
as MintPress reported
in Part
IV of
the investigative series “Inside
the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: Too Big to Fail,”
Epstein was involved with several arms dealers during this period of
time, some of whom were directly involved in Iran-Contra arms deals
between Israel and Iran. For instance, after leaving Bear Stearns in
1981, Epstein began
working in
the realms of shadow finance as a self-described “financial bounty
hunter,” where he would both hunt down and hide money for powerful
people. One of these powerful individuals was Adnan Khashoggi, a
Saudi arms dealer with close ties to both Israeli and U.S.
intelligence and one of the main brokers of Iran-Contra arms deals
between Israel and Iran. Epstein would later forge a business
relationship with a CIA front company involved in another aspect of
Iran-Contra, the airline Southern Air Transport, on behalf of Leslie
Wexner’s company, The Limited.
During
this period, it is also known that Epstein became well acquainted
with the British arms dealer Sir Douglas Leese, who collaborated with
Khashoggi on at least one British-Saudi arms deal in the 1980s.
Leese would
later introduce Epstein
to Steven Hoffenberg, calling Epstein a “genius” and describing
his lack of morals during that introduction. Thus, there are
indications that Epstein was involved with Middle Eastern arms deals,
including some related to Iran-Contra, during this period. In
addition, Epstein would later claim (and then subsequently deny)
having worked for the CIA during this period.
After
having been introduced to Epstein, Ben-Menashe claimed that neither
he nor Davies were impressed with Epstein and considered him “not
very competent.” He added that Ghislaine Maxwell had “fallen for”
Epstein and that he believed that the romantic relationship between
his daughter and Epstein led Robert Maxwell to work to bring the
latter into the “family business” — i.e., Maxwell’s dealings
with Israeli intelligence. This information is very revealing, given
that the narrative, until now at least, has been that Ghislaine
Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein did not meet and begin their relationship
until after Robert Maxwell’s death in 1991, after which Ghislaine
moved to New York.
Ben-Menashe
says that well after the introduction, though again he does not
specify what year, Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein began a
sexual blackmail operation with the purpose of extorting U.S.
political and public figures on behalf of Israeli military
intelligence. He stated:
In
this case what really happened, my take on it, in the later thing, is
that these guys were seen as agents. They weren’t really competent
to do very much. And so they found a niche for themselves —
blackmailing American and other political figures.”
He
then confirmed, when prompted, that they were blackmailing Americans
on behalf of Israeli intelligence.
In
response to his statement, Zev Shalev replied, “But, you know,
for most people it’s hard for them to think of Israel as being …
blackmailing their leaders in the United States, it’s a very …”
at which point, Ben-Menashe interrupted and the following exchange
took place:
Ari
Ben-Menashe: You’re kidding? [laughs]…. It was
quite their M.O. Sleeping around is not a crime, it may be
embarrassing, but it’s not a crime, but sleeping with underage
girls is a crime.
Shalev: It
was a crime in 2000 as well, but they let him off that…
Ben-Menashe: And
that it is [why] always so he [Epstein] made sure these girls were
underage.
In
addition, when Shalev asked Ben-Menashe about the
relationship between
Jeffrey Epstein and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak,
Ben-Menashe stated “After a while, you know, what Mr. Epstein was
doing was collecting intelligence on people in the United States. And
so if you want to go to the U.S. if you’re a high-profile
politician you want to know information about people.” Ben-Menashe
subsequently stated that Barak was obtaining compromising information
(i.e., blackmail) that Epstein had acquired on powerful people in the
United States.
PROMIS,
sex, and blackmail
If
Robert Maxwell did recruit Epstein and bring him into the “family
business” and the world of Israeli intelligence, as Ben-Menashe has
claimed, it provides supporting evidence for information provided
to MintPress by a former U.S. intelligence official,
who chose to remain anonymous in light of the sensitivity of the
claim.
This
source, who has direct knowledge of the unauthorized use of PROMIS to
support covert U.S. and Israeli intelligence projects,
told MintPress that
“some of the proceeds from the illicit sales of PROMIS were made
available to Jeffrey Epstein for use in compromising targets of
political blackmail.” As was noted in a Mintpress series
on the Epstein scandal,
much of Epstein’s funding also came from Ohio billionaire Leslie
Wexner, who has documented ties to both organized crime and U.S. and
Israeli intelligence.
After
the PROMIS software was stolen from its rightful owner and developer,
Inslaw Inc., through the collusion of both U.S. and Israeli
officials, it was marketed mainly by two men: Earl Brian, a close
aide to Ronald Reagan, later U.S. envoy to Iran and close friend of
Israeli spymaster Rafi Eitan; and Robert Maxwell. Brian sold the
bugged software through his company, Hadron Inc., while Maxwell sold
it through an Israeli company he acquired called Degem. Before and
following Maxwell’s acquisition of Degem, the company was a
known front for
Mossad operations and Mossad operatives in Latin America often posed
as Degem employees.
With
Maxwell — Epstein’s alleged recruiter and father of Epstein’s
alleged madam — having been one of the main salespeople involved in
selling PROMIS software on behalf of intelligence, he would have been
in a key position to furnish Epstein’s nascent sexual blackmail
operation with the proceeds from the sale of PROMIS.
This
link between Epstein’s sexual blackmail operation and the PROMIS
software scandal is notable given that the illicit use of PROMIS by
U.S. and Israeli intelligence has been for blackmail purposes on U.S.
public figures and politicians, as was described in a
recent MintPress report.
Can
an ex-spy be trusted?
When
dealing in the world of deception and intrigue that defines
intelligence operations, it is often difficult to determine whether
any individual linked to an intelligence agency is telling the truth.
Indeed, in the United States, there are examplesof
elected intelligence officials committing perjury and lying to
Congress on
several occasions with
no consequences, and of intelligence officials feeding politically
motivated and untrue information to agency assets in the media.
So,
are Ari Ben-Menashe’s claims regarding Epstein and the Maxwells
trustworthy? In addition to the aforementioned, corroborating
information for his claims, a review of Ben-Menashe’s
post-intelligence career suggests this is the case.
Ari
Ben Menashe arrives at Harare International Airport, in Zimbabwe,
Feb. 22, 2002. Photo | AP
Prior
to his arrest in November 1989, Ben-Menashe was a high-ranking
officer in a special unit of Israeli military intelligence. He
would later
claim that
his arrest for attempting to sell American-made weapons to Iran was
politically motivated, as he had threatened to expose what the U.S.
government had done with the stolen PROMIS software if the U.S. did
not cease providing Saddam Hussein’s Iraq with chemical weapons.
Ben-Menashe was later
acquitted when
a U.S. court determined that his involvement in the attempted sale of
military equipment to Iran was done on behalf of the Israeli state.
After
his arrest, Ben-Menashe was visited in prison by Robert Parry, the
former Newsweek contributor
and Associated
Press reporter
who would later found and run Consortium
News until
his recent passing last year. Parry remembered
that,
during that interview, “Ben-Menashe offered me startling new
information about the Iran-Contra scandal, which I thought that I
knew quite well.”
Israel’s
government immediately began to attack Ben-Menashe’s credibility
following his interview with Parry, and claimed that Ben-Menashe had
never worked for Israeli intelligence. When Parry soon found
evidence that
Ben-Menashe had indeed served in Israeli military intelligence,
Israel’s government was then forced to admit that he had worked for
military intelligence, but only as a “low-level translator.”
Yet, the
documentation Parry
had uncovered described Ben-Menashe as having served in “key
positions” and performed “complex and sensitive assignments.”
A
year later, Ben-Menashe would be interviewed by another journalist,
Seymour Hersh. It would be Ben-Menashe who first revealed to Hersh
secrets about Israel’s nuclear program and the fact that British
media mogul Robert Maxwell was an Israeli spy, revelations that Hersh
would not only independently corroborate but include in his book The
Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign
Policy.
Hersh was then sued by Robert Maxwell and the Maxwell-owned Mirror
Group for libel. The case was later
settled in
Hersh’s favor, as the claims Hersh had made were true and not
libelous. As a result, the Mirror Group paid Hersh for damages,
covered his legal costs, and issued him a formal apology.
After
Ben-Menashe’s interviews by Hersh and Parry, Israel’s government
was apparently concerned enough about what Ben-Menashe would tell
congressional investigators that it attempted
to kidnap him and
bring him back to Israel to face state charges, much like Israeli
intelligence had done to Israel’s nuclear-weapons whistleblower
Mordechai Vanunu. The plan was foiled largely thanks to Parry.
Parry,
who broke many key stories related to the Iran-Contra scandal in the
1980s and beyond, was tipped off by a U.S. intelligence source about
a joint U.S.-Israel plan to have Ben-Menashe first be denied entry to
the United States on his planned trip to give congressional
testimony. Per the plan, Ben-Menashe would be denied entry to the
U.S. in Los Angeles and then be deported to Israel, where he would
have stood trial for “exposing state secrets.” Parry called
Ben-Menashe and convinced him to delay his flight until he secured a
guarantee for safe passage from the U.S. government.
Ben-Menashe
subsequently gave a
sworn statement to
the House Judiciary Committee that mostly focused on U.S.-Israel
collusion regarding the theft and creation of a “backdoor” into
the PROMIS software. Ben-Menashe offered to name names and provide
corroborating evidence for several of his claims if he was offered
immunity by the committee, which, for whatever reason. declined that
request.
Prior
to the conclusion of the Hersh “libel” trial, which would later
uphold Ben-Menashe’s claims regarding Robert Maxwell’s Mossad
activities as true, there was a concerted effort in the U.S. press to
downplay Ben-Menashe’s credibility. For instance, Newsweek —
in an article on Ben-Menashe entitled “One
Man, Many Tales”
— claimed that “inconsistencies may undermine Ben-Menashe’s
testimony in the British courtroom proceedings,” citing
inconsistencies from sources in Israel’s government and Israeli
intelligence as well as Ben-Menashe’s
ex-wife and
Israeli journalist Shmuel (or Samuel) Segev, a former
IDF colonel.
It goes without saying that such sources had much to gain from any
effort to discredit Ben-Menashe’s claims.
According
to Parry, this media campaign, which employed American journalists
with close
ties to
Israel’s government and intelligence agencies, was very successful
“in marginalizing Ben-Menashe by 1993, at least in the eyes of the
Washington Establishment.” After a years-long media campaign to
discredit Ben-Menashe, “the Israelis seemed to view him as a
declining threat, best left alone. He was able to pick up the pieces
of his life, creating a second act as an international political
consultant and businessman arranging sales of grain.” The effort to
marginalize Ben-Menashe has continued well into recent years, with
mainstream news outlets still referring to him as a “self-described
ex-Israeli spy”
— despite the well-documented fact that Ben-Menashe worked for
Israeli intelligence — as a means of downplaying his claims
regarding his time in Israel’s intelligence service.
After
the conclusion of the Hersh libel trial, Ben-Menashe became an
international political consultant who “surrounded his far-flung
business activities in secrecy and got involved with some
controversial international figures, such as Zimbabwe’s leader
Robert Mugabe,” and “conducted
his international consulting business … in a wide variety of global
hotspots, including conflict zones,” according to Parry. In
addition to Mugabe, Ben-Menashe has
also recently come underfirefor
his consulting work on behalf of Sudan’s military junta and
Venezuelan opposition politician Henri Falcón.
Ben-Menashe
has also maintained ties to several different intelligence services
and eventually
became a
controversial whistleblower whose information led
to the arrest of
the former head of Canada’s Security Intelligence Review Committee,
Arthur Porter.
As
far as his character is concerned, Parry
noted that
Ben-Menashe could often be “his own worst enemy” and that, even
though Parry considered his information regarding Iran-Contra and
PROMIS reliable and noted that much of it was later corroborated, he
“often compound[ed] his media problem by treating journalists in a
high-handed manner, either due to his suspicions of them or his
arrogance.”
Bill
Hamilton, the original developer of the PROMIS software and head of
Inslaw Inc., also found Ben-Menashe’s claims regarding the illicit
use of PROMIS by U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies to be
credible, though he expressed doubts about Ben-Menashe’s
character.
Hamilton
told MintPress the following about Ben-Menashe:
Ari
Ben Menashe was the first source to tell us reliable information
about the role of Rafi Eitan and Israeli intelligence vis-a-vis
PROMIS but, in the end, of course, he was a clandestine services-type
guy whose official duties include the ability and willingness to lie,
cheat, and steal.”
A
threat revived
While
Ben-Menashe may have been viewed as a “declining threat” after
the early 1990s, his plans to meet with Robert Parry of Consortium
News years
later in 2012 to discuss Iran-Contra and other covert dealings of the
1980s appeared to change that. Right before he planned to travel from
Canada to the United States to meet with Parry and “finally prove”
the truthfulness of his past claims, a
fire-bomb was thrown into
his Montreal home, destroying it.
Air Ben-Menashe surveys
the damage to his home after it was mysteriously firebombed. Photos |
Robert Parry
Though
Canadian media referred
to the
incendiary device as a “molotov cocktail,” Consortium
News reported that
“the arson squad’s initial assessment is said to be that the
flammable agent was beyond the sort of accelerant used by common
criminals,” leading to speculation that the accelerant was
military-grade.
Had
it not been for the bomb, the origins of which Canadian police failed
to determine, Ben-Menashe would have traveled to the U.S. alongside a
“senior Israeli intelligence figure” to be interviewed by Parry.
The other intelligence-linked individual, according
to Parry,
“concluded that the attack was meant as a message from Israeli
authorities to stay silent about the historical events that he was
expected to discuss.”
Though
neither Ben-Menashe nor Parry directly blamed Israel’s government
for the destruction of Ben-Menashe’s home, Parry
noted that
the bombing did succeed in “intimidating Ben-Menashe, shutting down
possible new disclosures of Israeli misconduct from the other
intelligence veteran, and destroying records that would have helped
Ben-Menashe prove whatever statements he might make.”
While
Ben-Menashe’s post-intelligence associations with controversial
governments and individuals have given plenty of fodder to the still
thriving media campaign to discredit his claims about covert
U.S.-Israel operations in the 1980s, there remain troubling
indications that the Israeli government sees his information on
decades-old events as a threat.
Now,
with the major efforts by powerful Americans and Israelis to distance
themselves from Jeffrey Epstein and other figures associated with his
depraved sex trafficking operation, Ben-Menashe may soon again find
his reputation — and perhaps more — under fire.
Feature
photo | Graphic by Claudio Cabrera
Whitney
Webb is
a MintPress News journalist based in Chile. She has contributed to
several independent media outlets including Global Research,
EcoWatch, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others.
She has made several radio and television appearances and is the 2019
winner of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in
Journalism.
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Maduro
weigerde VS hulpgoederen daar men ervan uitgaat dat zich tussen die
hulpgoederen wapens bevinden, dit feit wordt ontkend door de
reguliere media als zijnde een leugen (ofwel ‘fake news’), terwijl de bewijzen er niet om
liegen……
Zo heeft een
vliegtuig uit de VS wel degelijk wapens gesmokkeld naar
Venezuela, althans dat was de bedoeling, tot de autoriteiten wapens,
munitie en ander oorlogstuig in de lading vonden. Hetzelfde vliegtuig
van de maatschappij ‘Air 21’, een maatschappij die toentertijd alleen
in de VS vloog, vliegt al een paar maanden op en neer tussen Miami
(VS), Venezuela en Colombia, gegarandeerd dat Air 21 al veel meer wapens heeft gesmokkeld naar Venezuela……
Overigens is Air 21 gelinkt aan de ontvoeringen van terreurverdachten door de CIA naar geheime gevangenissen, waar deze ontvoerde verdachten werden gemarteld, ‘lekker bedrijf’ dat Air 21……..’ (tja en deze misdaden tegen de menselijkheid zijn al veel langer een specialiteit van de VS, dus dat is geen nieuws, laat staan dat dit nog verwondering oproept….)
Overigens geeft dit nog eens aan hoe hard men in de VS en de rest van het westen liegt over de humanitaire hulp voor Venezuela, immers het bewuste vliegtuig vloog zoals gezegd al eerder met humanitaire hulpgoederen op Venezuela…..* Buiten dat: het Rode Kruis en de VN zijn tevreden over de verspreiding van humanitaire hulpgoederen in Venezuela, waarbij het leger en vrijwilligers uitstekende hulp verlenen, aldus deze 2 organisaties. Zij waarschuwden afgelopen week dan ook niet in de pr stunt (ofwel het haatzaaien) van de VS te trappen……
Gisteren werd bekend gemaakt dat de VS met militaire vliegtuigen ‘humanitaire hulpgoederen’ zal zenden naar Colombia en dan naar de grensstreek met Venezuela….. Uiteraard zijn het Witte Huis en het Pentagon op de hoogte van de al aanwezige hulp in Venezuela van het Rode Kruis en de VN, vandaar ook dat het wel zeker is dat men militaire ‘hulpgoederen’ stuurt naar Colombia….. Om deze stap te verdedigen blijft men in de reguliere westerse massamedia blazen over de weigering van Maduro humanitaire hulpgoederen toe te laten in Venezuela……
Lees het
volgende verhaal in de serie over de voortdurende agressie van de VS
tegen Venezuela en zie de gelijkenis met de Iran-Contra affaire……
Een affaire waarin VS oorlogsmisdadiger Abrams een heel smerige rol speelde, waar deze ploert nu is aangesteld door de Trump
administratie als speciaal VS gezant, om de acties tegen Venezuela te coördineren….. (want daar komt het op neer)
US
Company That Smuggled Weapons Into Venezuela Linked to CIA “Black
Site” Renditions
(MPN) — The
parallels between aspects of the Contra scandal and the current
situation in Venezuela are striking, particularly given the recent
“outrage” voiced by mainstream media and prominent U.S.
politicians over Maduro’s refusal to allow U.S. “humanitarian
aid” into the country.
Two
executives at the company that chartered the U.S. plane that was
caught smuggling weapons into Venezuela last week have been tied to
an air cargo company that aided the CIA in the rendition of alleged
terrorists to “black site” centers for interrogation. The
troubling revelation comes as Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro
has rejected a U.S. “humanitarian aid” convoy over concerns that
it could contain weapons meant to arm the country’s U.S.-backed
opposition.
Last
Tuesday, Venezuelan authorities announced that
19 rifles, 118 ammo magazines, 90 radios and six iPhones had been
smuggled into the country via a U.S. plane that had originated in
Miami. The authorities blamed the United States government for the
illicit cargo, accusing it of seeking to arm U.S.-funded opposition
groups in the country in order to topple the current Maduro-led
government.
A subsequent
investigation into
the plane responsible for the weapons caché conducted
by McClatchyDC received
very little media attention despite the fact that it uncovered
information clearly showing that the plane responsible for the
shipment had been making an unusually high number of trips to
Venezuela and neighboring Colombia over the past few weeks.
Steffan
Watkins, an Ottawa-based analyst, told McClatchy in
a telephone interview that the plane, which is operated by U.S. air
cargo company 21
Air,
had been “flying between Philadelphia and Miami and all over the
place, but all continental U.S.” during all of last year. However,
Watkins noted that “all of a sudden in January, things changed”
when the plane began making trips to Colombia and Venezuela on a
daily basis, sometimes multiple times a day.
According
to Watkins’ analysis, this single plane had conducted 40 round-trip
flights from Miami International Airport to Caracas and Valencia —
where the smuggled weapons had been discovered — in Venezuela, as
well as to Bogota and Medellin in Colombia in just the past month.
Publicly
available flight radar information shows
that the plane, although it has not returned to Venezuela since the
discovery of its illicit cargo, has continued to travel to Medellin,
Colombia, as recently as this past Monday.
Multiple
CIA ties
In
addition to the dramatic and abrupt change in flight patterns that
occurred just weeks before U.S. Vice President Mike Pence prompted
Venezuelan opposition member Juan Guaidó to declare himself “interim
president,” a subsequent McClatchyfollow-up
investigation also
uncovered the fact that two top executives at the company that owns
the plane in question had previously worked with a company connected
to controversial CIA “black sites.”
Indeed,
the chairman and majority owner of 21 Air, Adolfo Moreno, and 21
Air’s director of quality control, Michael Steinke, both have
“either coincidental or direct ties” to Gemini Air Cargo, a
company previously named
by Amnesty
International as one of the air charter services involved in a CIA
rendition program. In this CIA program, individuals suspected of
terrorism were abducted by the intelligence agency and then taken
abroad to third-country secret “black sites” where torture,
officially termed “enhanced interrogation,” was regularly
performed.
Steinke
worked for Gemini Air Cargo from 1996 to 1997, according to a 2016
Department of Transportation document cited by McClatchy.
Moreno, although he did not work for Gemini, registered two separate
business at a Miami address that was later registered to Gemini Air
Cargo while the CIA rendition program was active. McClatchy noted
that the first business Moreno registered at the location was
incorporated in 1987 while the second was created in 2001. Gemini
Cargo Logistics, a subsidiary of Gemini Air Cargo, was subsequently
registered at that same location in 2005.
21
Air has denied any responsibility for the weapons shipment discovered
onboard the plane it operates, instead blaming a contractor known as
GPS-Air for the illicit cargo. A GPS-Air manager, Cesar Meneses,
told McClatchy that the weapons shipment had been
“fabricated” by the Maduro-led government to paint his government
as the victim. Meneses also stated that “the cargo doesn’t belong
to 21 Air and it doesn’t belong to GPS-Air” and that it had been
provided by third parties, whose identities Meneses declined to
disclose.
Contras
redux?
The
revelation that the company that operates the plane caught smuggling
weapons into Venezuela has connections to past controversial CIA
programs is unlikely to surprise many observers, given the CIA’s
decades-long history of funneling weapons to U.S.-backed opposition
fighters in Latin
America, Southeast
Asia and other
conflict areas around
the globe.
One
of the best-known examples of the CIA using airliners to smuggle
weapons to a U.S.-backed paramilitary group occurred during the 1980s
in what became known as the Iran-Contra scandal, in which the Reagan
administration delivered weapons to the Contra rebels in order to
topple the left-leaning Sandinista movement. Many of those
weapons had
been hidden on
flights claiming to be carrying “humanitarian aid” into
Nicaragua.
The
parallels between aspects of the Contra scandal and the current
situation in Venezuela are striking, particularly given the
recent “outrage” voiced
by mainstream media and prominent U.S. politicians over Maduro’s
refusal to allow U.S. “humanitarian aid” into the country. Maduro
had explained his rejection of the aid as partially stemming from the
concern that it could contain weapons or other supplies aimed at
creating an armed opposition force, like the “rebel” force that
was armed
by the CIA in
Syria in 2011.
Though
the media has written off Maduro’s concern as unfounded, that
is hardly
the case in
light of the fact that the Trump administration’s recently named
special envoy in charge of the administration’s Venezuela policy,
Elliott Abrams, had been instrumental in delivering weapons to the
Nicaraguan Contras, including hiding those weapons in “humanitarian
aid” shipments. In subsequent testimony after the scandal broke in
the 1980s, Abrams himself
admitted to
funneling weapons to the Contras in exactly this way.
With
the recently uncovered illicit weapons shipment from the U.S. to
Venezuela now linked to companies that have previously worked with
the CIA in covert operations, Maduro’s response to the
“humanitarian aid” controversy is even more justified.
Unfortunately for him, the U.S.-backed “interim president,” Juan
Guaidó, announced
on Monday that
his parallel government had received the first “external” source
of “humanitarian aid” into the country, but would not disclose
its source, its specific contents, nor how it had entered the
country.
Esta entrega representa 20 raciones para cada beneficiario, y corresponde a la primera fase de atención a las poblaciones más vulnerables como consecuencia de la crisis humanitaria que estamos enfrentando.
(de opgeblazen oorlogshitser en oorlogsmisdadiger Pompeo beweert dat Hezbollah werkzaam is in Venezuela en daar een leger heeft dat gezien zijn woorden amper onder doet voor de gezamenlijke NAVO troepen… ha! ha! ha! Ook hier is totaal geen bewijs voor deze belachelijke beschuldiging…)
In een
vergadering over de politiek ten aanzien van Venezuela heeft
Democratisch congreslid* Ilhan Omar het oorlogsmonster Abrams het vel
over de oren getrokken. Abrams is de oorlogsmisdadiger die is
aangesteld door de Trump administratie om de VS acties tegen de democratisch gekozen president van Venezuela te coördineren als speciaal gezant voor de VS……
Abrams is bekend van zijn bloedig acties tegen voormalige regeringen in Latijns-Amerika en het in stand houden van dictaturen die de VS welgevallig waren, zo is de schoft mede
verantwoordelijk voor een genocide in Guatemala en voorts in diverse Latijns-Amerikaanse landen: moord, verkrachtingen, martelingen en
ontvoeringen………
Lees en
zie (video) hoe Omar Abrams op een geweldige manier te kakken zet en
zie de smerige reacties van schoften die achter Abrams staan. Abrams
zou nu een mensenrechtenactivist zijn, althans als je het geteisem
moet geloven, dat dit gelul van een dronken aardbei is, blijkt wel
uit het feit dat de Trump administratie deze smerige schoft heeft
aangesteld om de coup in Venezuela in de juiste VS banen te leiden……..
Moet je nagaan, het voorgaande nadat de VS de laatste 10
jaar het volk van Venezuela steeds dieper in de ellende heeft
gestort met een smerige economische oorlog……..
Overigens
was Omar onlangs al in opspraak over haar uitlatingen t.a.v. AIPAC**
(CJ Opinion) — Days
after being smashed with a vicious
establishment smear campaign to
paint her as an antisemite for accurately criticizing AIPAC,
Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is already back on the horse
aggressively disrupting the establishment
narrative matrix that
our rulers have worked so hard to construct for us.
Elliott
Abrams is a monster. The atrocities
that he has facilitated,
covered up and whitewashed in Panama, El
Salvador, Gaza, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Iraq are
utterly unforgivable, and the fact that he has been appointed
as special envoy to Venezuela by
the Trump administration completely invalidates the US government’s
Venezuela narrative all by itself. Even without the blatant
lies,
the known
oil agendas,
the CIA
ops,
the mounting
evidence of
US arms smuggling to right-wing militias, and America’s extensive
history of utterly disastrous regime change interventionism, the fact
that this administration would appoint such a ghoulish individual to
spearhead its Venezuela interventionism alone is
enough to show you that the US government has nothing but malevolent
intentions for that nation.
So
it was nice to see someone in that government calling him what he is
right to his face in front of everybody.
At
a House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) hearing on US Venezuela policy,
Abrams was
presented with
the only line of questioning that is appropriate for such a beast by
the very congresswoman the Democrats threw to the wolves just two
days ago. Someone had to do it, and they left it to Ilhan Omar.
“In
1991, you pleaded guilty to two counts of withholding information
from Congress regarding your involvement in the Iran-Contra affair,
for which you were later pardoned by President George H.W. Bush,”
Omar accurately stated. “I fail to understand why members of this
committee, or the American people should find any testimony that you
give today to be truthful.”
“If
I could respond to that-” Abrams began.
“That
wasn’t a question,” Omar responded, cutting him off.
“It
was an attack! It was an attack!” Abrams exclaimed, visibly upset.
“I
reserve the right to my time,” said Omar.
“It
is not right that members of this Committee can attack a witness who
is not permitted to reply,” Abrams said, talking over Omar.
“That
was not a question; thank you for your participation,” Omar
continued. “On February 8th, 1982, you testified before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee about US foreign policy in El Salvador.
In that hearing, you dismissed as communist propaganda a report about
the massacre of El Mozote of which more than 800 civilians, including
children as young as two years old, were brutally murdered by
U.S.-trained troops. During that massacre, some of those troops
bragged about raping 12 year-old girls before they killed them. You
later said that the U.S. policy in El Salvador was a ‘fabulous
achievement.’ Yes or no, do you still think so?”
“From
the day that President Duarte was elected in a free election, to this
day, El Salvador has been a democracy,” Abrams said angrily.
“That’s a fabulous achievement.”
“Yes
or no, do you think that massacre was a fabulous achievement that
happened under our watch?” Omar asked.
“That
is a ridiculous question and I will not respond to it,” Abrams
replied. “I’m sorry Mr. Chairman, I am not going to respond to
that kind of personal attack which is not a question.”
“I
will take that as a yes,” Omar said. “Yes or no, would you
support an armed faction within Venezuela that engages in war crimes,
crimes against humanity, or genocide if you believe they were serving
US interests as you did in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua?”
“I’m
not going to respond to that question,” Abrams again answered. “I’m
sorry, I don’t think this entire line of questioning is meant to be
real questions, and so I will not reply.”
“Whether
under your watch a genocide will take place, and you will look the
other way because American interests were being upheld is a fair
question,” Omar said. “Because the American people want to know
that any time we engage a country that we think about what our
actions could be and how we believe our values are being furthered.
That is my question: Will you make sure that human rights are not
violated and that we uphold international and human rights?”
“I
suppose there is a question in there, and the answer is that the
entire thrust of American policy in Venezuela is to support the
Venezuelan people’s effort to restore democracy to their country,”
Abrams responded. “That’s our policy.”
“I
don’t think anybody disputes that,” Omar said. “The question I
had for you is that does the interests of the United States include
protecting human rights and include protecting people against
genocide?”
“That
is always the
position of the United States,” Abrams lied.
“Thank
you,” concluded Omar. “I yield back the rest of my time.”
There
is no legitimate reason for Elliott Abrams to ever find himself
before a group of people who are ostensibly concerned with
accountability and responsibility without being asked such questions.
But that didn’t stop all the world’s worst people from crawling
out of the woodwork to his defense.
“Disgraceful
ad hominem attacks by @IlhanMN on my @CFR_org colleague Elliott
Abrams,” tweeted Iraq-raping
neocon Max Boot. “She doesn’t seem to realize he is a leading
advocate of human rights and democracy — not a promoter of
genocide! More evidence of the loony left I caution Democrats about.”
I
worked for Elliott Abrams as a civil servant,” tweeted Kelly
Magsamen, Vice President of National Security for
the plutocrat-backed
liberal think tank Center
for American Progress (CAP). “He is a fierce advocate for human rights
and democracy. Yes, he made serious professional mistakes and was
held accountable. I’m a liberal but I’m also fair. We all have a
lot of work to do together in Venezuela. We share goals.”
“I
am not greatly sympathetic to Rep. Omar (surprise
surprise),” tweetedNational
Review senior
editor and former George W Bush speech writer Jay Nordlinger. “But
really, someone ought to have given her a clue who Elliott Abrams is.
The guy has been championing freedom and human rights his entire life
(and taking unholy sh** for it from the illiberal Left and Right).”
Conservative
pundit Michael Knowles tossed his two cents into the campaign to
purge the concept of antisemitism of any meaning by tweeting,
“One wonders why @IlhanMN seems to harbor such particular contempt
for Elliott¹ Abrams² (¹ from the Hebrew ‘Elijah,’ meaning ‘My
God is Yahweh’ ² the father of the Jewish people).”
This
is the bipartisan establishment orthodoxy that is guiding your
foreign policy, America. One which claims Elliott Abrams is a saint,
which claims criticism of US warmongering is antisemitic, and which
throws a bold Somali-American woman under the bus for speaking the
truth after years of paying lip service to the need to get more women
of color elected to the leadership of the Democratic Party. This
whole Abrams incident happened, by the way, at the same time Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deleted
a tweet in
which he accidentally acknowledged the agenda to start a war with
Iran, but you probably won’t see Omar commenting on this because
she knows she’ll be smeared as an antisemite for it.
US
warmongering is the most aggressively protected part of the
establishment narrative matrix, because US warmongering is the glue
that holds the unipolar empire together. Without it, our rulers
cannot rule, so you’ll see imperial lackeys fiercely attacking
anyone who draws attention to America’s bloodbaths around the
world, even if they are good servants of the empire in other areas.
The
difficulty for our rulers, though, is that warmongering is a very
difficult thing to paint a pretty picture of, especially with our
newfound ability to quickly share ideas and information around the
globe. I mean, look at Elliott Abrams. Seriously, just watch
him talk.
That demonic grimace is the prettiest face they could find to put on
their Venezuela agenda. I find that very encouraging.
The
reason they work so hard to manufacture our consent for warmongering
agendas is because they need that
consent. They wouldn’t propagandize us so aggressively if they
didn’t need us all trusting them and believing their stories, so
the best way to fight establishment warmongering is to circulate
disbelief in their stories. Whenever you see someone like Ilhan Omar
drawing attention to the gaping plot holes in agendas like regime
change interventionism in Venezuela, go ahead and help draw attention
to it.
Things
are only shitty because a few extremely powerful people do very
shitty things. The only reason powerful people get away with doing
very shitty things is because the majority allows them to. The
majority only allows them to because they’ve been propagandized to.
The weakest link in this chain is the propaganda. Attack there.
* Ter verduidelijking: Ilhan Omar, heeft sinds 2017 een zetel in het lagerhuis van Minnesota voor de Minnesota Demcratic-Farmer-Labor Party (toegevoegd op 10 maart 2019)
(de opgeblazen oorlogshitser en oorlogsmisdadiger Pompeo beweert dat Hezbollah werkzaam is in Venezuela en daar een leger heeft dat gezien zijn woorden amper onder doet voor de gezamenlijke NAVO troepen… ha! ha! ha! Ook hier is totaal geen bewijs voor deze belachelijke beschuldiging…)
Lees het volgende uitstekende artikel van Jon Schwarz, gepubliceerd op The Intercept, over Oliver North die van drugslord, nu waarschijnlijk snel zal
worden gebombardeerd (deden ze dat maar letterlijk) tot president van
terreurorganisatie NRA, ofwel de National Rifle Association……
Leden van de NRA snappen nog steeds
niet dat alcohol één van de dodelijkste harddrugs op de wereld is,
maar hebben wel de pest aan alles wat men verder illegale drugs* noemt
(waar ze uiteraard ook cannabis toe rekenen……). Geen nood voor deze veelal hypocriete christenen, Oliver North wordt ondanks zijn rol als ‘drugslord’ en terrorist gewoon als held gezien, terwijl hij een oorlogsmisdadiger is die berecht zou moeten worden voor het Internationaal Strafhof in Den Haag (het ICC)…..
Als North bijvoorbeeld een Colombiaan was geweest, had men hem al lang opgesloten in de VS vanwege zijn bemoeienis met de invoer van enorme hoeveelheden cocaïne (in de VS)…..
Voorts heeft North de Contra’s in Nicaragua, een terreurgroep die tegen de socialistische regering vocht, gesteund met wapens, die hij kocht van de winsten gemaakt met drugshandel….
Ach het voorgaande geeft ten overvloede nog eens aan waarvoor de NRA staat: grootschalige terreur op de straten, scholen en andere openbare gelegenheden van de VS…….
THE
NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION has always been
clear about drugs: They’re terrifying.
Last
year, NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre darkly
warned that
members of drug gangs “are infiltrating law enforcement and even
the military.” In 2013, LaPierre proclaimed that
“Latin American drug gangs have invaded every city of significant
size in the United States,” and are a key part of the “hellish
world” that awaits us in the future. When Charlton Heston was
president of the NRA in the 1990s, he declared that
regular Americans would soon be besieged by 10,000 drug dealers freed
from prison by the Clinton administration.
It
seems odd, then, that the next president of the NRA will
soon be Oliver North,
who spent years in the 1980s working together with large-scale
cocaine traffickers and protecting a notorious narco-terrorist
from the rest of the U.S. government.
This
reality about North has been largely covered up, first by North
himself and then by Fox News and the passage of time. Thirty
years later, it’s been almost totally forgotten. But the facts
remain genuinely appalling.
North
was an active-duty Marine when he joined the Reagan administration’s
National Security Council in 1981. One of Reagan’s top priorities
was organizing and funding the Contras, a guerrilla military force,
to overthrow the revolutionary socialist Sandinista government of
Nicaragua. But the Contras engaged in extensive,
gruesome terrorism against
Nicaraguan civilians. Congress gradually reduced and then eliminated
appropriations supporting them, leading the Reagan administration to
secretly search for money elsewhere.
According
to the report from a later
congressional investigation,
North was put in charge of this operation, which participants dubbed
“The Enterprise.”
“Report
of the congressional committees investigating the Iran-Contra
Affair,” U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee to
Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran; U.S. Senate Select
Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan
Opposition, 1987
North
enthusiastically looked for cash wherever he could find it, and
led many of the clandestine schemes that later became known
as the Iran-Contra scandal. The Sultan of Brunei donated $10 million
(which North’s secretary Fawn Hall accidentally wired to the wrong
Swiss bank account), and Saudi Arabia ponied up as well. North also
pushed what he called “a
neat idea”: selling U.S. military equipment to Iran, with the
proceeds passed along to the Contras.
Meanwhile,
the Contras had a neat idea of their own: facilitating cocaine
trafficking through Central America into the U.S., with a cut going
toward supporting their war against the Sandinistas. Some Contras
were themselves cocaine traffickers, and others were simply happy to
make alliances of convenience with drug cartels.
There’s
no evidence North actively wanted cocaine
to be smuggled into the U.S. It was simply that he had other
priorities. But was he aware of the Contras’ drug trafficking? Yes.
Did he try to shield one of “his” cocaine traffickers from
consequences from the other branches of the U.S. government?
Yes. Did he work together with a known drug lord? Yes.
All
in all, North’s connections to drug trafficking were so egregious
that in 1989 he was banned
from entering Nicaragua’s neighbor Costa Rica by
Oscar Arias, the country’s president and 1987 recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize.
This
may seem shocking to the easily shocked. But it’s all been
documented in various government investigations. All you need in
order to learn about it is curiosity and an internet connection. For
instance, here’s a screenshot from the CIA’s
website about
the Nicaraguan Revolutionary Democratic Alliance, or ADREN by
its Spanish acronym, which was later folded into the Contras:
“Allegations
of Connections Between CIA and The Contras in Cocaine Trafficking to
the United States,” CIA, 1998
The
full extent of North’s complicity in cocaine trafficking will never
be known. When the Iran-Contra scandal story broke in November 1986,
he ordered Hall to destroy so many documents that the shredder
malfunctioned,
and she had to ask White House maintenance to come and fix it.
Moreover, when North was removed from his National Security Council (NSC) job, he took with him 2,848 pages of daily notes — which legally
belonged to the federal government. By the time a congressional
investigation was finally able to examine the notes, North and his
lawyers had redacted huge amounts of information.
Nonetheless,
543 of the pages mentioned drugs or drug trafficking, with the
probe finding that
“in many of these cases, material in the Notebooks adjacent to the
narcotics references has been deleted.”
“Drugs,
Law Enforcement And Foreign Policy,” U.S. Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, 1989
But
despite North’s cover-up, what we do know for sure is
incredibly damning.
Perhaps
most significantly, according to North’s own
notes he
met with Panama’s then-dictator Manuel Noriega in London in
September 1986 to collaborate on a plan for Noriega to support the
Contras in return for American money and arms. They discussed
sabotaging a Nicaraguan airport and oil refinery, as well as creating
a program to train Contra and Afghan mujahedeen commandos in Panama
with Israeli help. (It’s not completely clear, but North appears to
have written that “Rabin” – i.e., Yitzhak Rabin, who was then
Israel’s minister of defense – “approves.”)
North
was clearly enthusiastic about the potential partnership with
Noriega. In an
earlier email selling
the proposal to one of his superiors, he wrote that “we might have
available a very effective, very secure means of doing some of the
things which must be done if the Nicaragua project is going to
succeed. … I believe we could make the appropriate arrangements w/
reasonable OPSEC and deniability.”
Email,
Oliver North to John Poindexter, May 8, 1986 (neem aan dat het niet om een email ging destijds….)
But
of course, Noriega was himself a powerful drug trafficker. Knowing
this didn’t require a top-secret clearance: It was published on
the front page of
the New York Times three months before North met with him.
According to the Times article, “A White House official said the
most significant drug-running in Panama was being directed by General
Noriega.”
The
North-Noriega operation ultimately didn’t come to fruition; the
Iran-Contra affair was exposed just two months after they met.
But the planning that did occur is conclusive evidence that North
eagerly worked with drug dealers operating on the largest scale
imaginable.
“Panama
Strongman Said to Trade In Drugs, Arms and Illicit Money,” New York
Times, June 11, 1986
North
also went to great
lengths to
protect an ally who was a key participant in what the Justice
Department called “the
most significant case of narco-terrorism yet discovered.”
In
1984, José Bueso Rosa, a Honduran general, plotted with several
others to assassinate the president of Honduras. They planned to fund
the hit with the proceeds from selling 760 pounds of cocaine in the
U.S.
The
FBI, however, had the participants under surveillance, intercepted
the shipment when it arrived at a small airfield in Florida, and
arrested everyone involved.
But
Bueso had played a key role in Honduran support for the Contras. So
North went to work to get him off as lightly as possible. (Bueso had
not himself been charged with drug trafficking, but
wiretaps made it obvious he participated in that part
of the project.)
In
email, North explained his
plans to “cabal quietly” with other Reagan administration
officials “to look at options: pardon, clemency, deportation,
reduced sentence.” Eventually, North planned to have the case’s
judge informed “in camera” — that is, secretly — about “our
equities in this matter,” in order to push for leniency. Then,
North wrote, it would be necessary to quietly brief Bueso, so that he
wouldn’t “start singing songs nobody wants to hear.”
North
didn’t get everything he wanted, but did succeed in having Bueso
transferred to a “Club Fed” minimum security prison. Bueso was
released on parole after 40 months.
THERE
ARE ALSO numerous documented examples of North
being informed that members of the Contras were involved in drug
trafficking, with no signs that North took any action.
For
instance, after meeting with a key assistant, North wrote in
his notebooks about a plane being used by the brother of a top Contra
leader to ferry supplies from the U.S. to Central America. “Honduran
DC-6 which is being used for runs out of New Orleans,” North jotted
down, “is probably being used for drug runs into U.S.”
North
testified in front of Congress that he’d passed this information
along to the Drug Enforcement Administration. When later questioned
by the Washington Post, the DEA, the State Department, and the U.S.
Customs Service all stated that
there was no evidence North ever said anything about the matter to
them.
Oliver
North, notes, August 9, 1985
The
same aide who told North about the plane also informed
him about
the “potential involvement with drug running” of one Contra
official and that another was “now involved in drug running out of
Panama.” And after a call from another subordinate,
North noted that
the Contras were planning to buy weapons from a Honduran warehouse —
and “14 M to finance came from drugs.”
North
was getting similar reports from outside the government as well.
Dennis Ainsworth, a Republican real estate investor who’d
volunteered to help the Contra cause, informed a U.S. attorney that
the top Contra commander “was involved in drug trafficking,” but
that the Nicaraguan community was frightened to come forward
because “they could be blown away by Colombia hit squads.”
Ainsworth said he’d tried to inform the White House about this but
“we were put off by Ollie North,” and “I was even physically
threatened by one of Ollie North’s associates.” (The U.S.
attorney later wrote a memo with
Ainsworth’s statements and transmitted it to the FBI.)
“Regarding
Dennis Madden Ainsworth, Information Concerning,” FBI, January 6,
1987
North
and the NRA did not immediately respond to requests for comment on
this history. When North ran for Senate in 1994, his
campaign spokesperson said his involvement with the Bueso case
was “old news and garbage and nobody cares about it.” In a 2004
appearance on Fox News, North called a congressional investigation
that focused on the Contra-cocaine connection “a witch hunt” with
witnesses “who clearly had a political agenda.”
But
the extraordinarily sordid nature of North’s past will be clear to
anyone who appraises it honestly. In announcing North’s
appointment, Wayne LaPierre said there’s “no one better
suited to serve as our President,” and he’s correct. Oscar
Arias wrote
Thursday that
the NRA “finds in Oliver North a leader worthy of its mission.”
Peter Kornbluh, who was co-director of the Iran-Contra documentation
project at the National Security Archive, is even more
straightforward: North, he says, is “the perfect pick to further
the NRA’s reputation for favoring bloodshed and criminality over
responsible gun control and ownership.”
Top
photo: Former U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North gives the Invocation
at the National Rifle Association-Institute for Legislative Action
Leadership Forum in Dallas on May 4, 2018.
* Let wel: in het Engels zijn drugs ook de medicijnen tegen ziekte enz. Het gebruik van opiaten als pijnbestrijder is één van de redenen waarom er nu zoveel ophef is in de VS over verslaafden aan die opiaten, ofwel synthetische opium zoals Oxycontin. Bij velen wordt de werking van deze opiaten in de loop van de jaren steeds zwakker, waarna ze hun toevlucht nemen tot echte, niet synthetische opiaten als heroïne…..
PS: in de kop staat dat North ex-CIA werknemer is, in feite was dit zo gezien zijn handelen met de CIA, echter officieel heeft hij nooit op de CIA loonlijst gestaan.
Gisteren was het 37 jaar geleden dat Ronald Reagan een ‘c-acteur’ en d-politicus president werd van de VS. Diezelfde dag liet Iran de VS gijzelaars vrij die 444 dagen vast hadden gezeten in de VS ambassade van Teheran.
Nog steeds spreekt men over het succes dat Reagan boekte met de vrijlating van de gijzelaars. Zoals veel ‘gekozen-presidenten’ bemoeide het team van Reagan zich na de verkiezingsoverwinning, maar voor de inauguratie van Reagan (als president), met de gaande politiek en in dit geval o.a. met de onderhandelingen die president Carters administratie voerde met de Iraniërs. Dat is te zeggen, buiten medeweten van die administratie (en reken maar met de hulp van de CIA…)…….
Met wapens in ruil voor het vasthouden van de gijzelaars tot na de verkiezingen, stal opperploert Reagan de verkiezingen. Deze schoft liet de gijzelaars zelfs vastzitten tot zijn inauguratie op 20 januari, waar zijn administratie later bij verzon, dat de Iraniërs Carter een softie vonden en bang waren voor Reagan en daarom de gijzelaars vrij hebben gelaten op de dag dat hij werkelijk president werd……….
Echter de waarheid is heel anders: Iran was de hele gijzelingskwestie meer dan zat en begon de onderhandelingen met het team van president Carter.
Over manipulaties van verkiezingen gesproken: daar heeft men in de VS de Russen in het geheel niet voor nodig……….
Hier het bericht van Brasscheck TV met video’s over deze zaak:
THE OCTOBER SURPRISE
On
January 20, 1980, just minutes after Ronald Reagan was inaugurated,
Iran released US hostages it had held for 444 days.
We’re
reviewing a crucial decade in American history…
The
1980s.
This
was the decade that federal government criminality went into high
gear.
Ad
it all started with an act of fraud and high treason, a kind of
bloodless coup.
Gary
Sick, a retired Naval Captain wrote “All Fall Down,” and claimed
that in October 1980 Ronald Reagan made a deal with Iran to prevent
American hostages from being released until after Election Day. As
payback, the US arranged for Israel to give arms to Iran.
=======================
Zie ook hoe de VS nu bezig is met pogingen om een oorlog tegen Iran te beginnen, alles overgoten met de gebruikelijke leugens van de VS, de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde:
Niet alleen door nep berichten via de reguliere media, bespelen deze mediaorganen de publieke opinie, maar deze organen proberen ook de alternatieve echte journalistiek het zwijgen op te leggen, zoals met de zwarte lijst, die de Washington Post (WP) publiceerde……. Daarnaast legt de overheid van de VS, als het even kan, met geweld de VS onwelgevallige echte journalisten het zwijgen op, niet alleen in het buitenland, maar ook binnen de eigen grenzen……
Op 10 december 2004 werd onderzoeksjournalist Gary Webb vermoord teruggevonden, dat wil zeggen, de overheid van de VS verklaarde het als suïcide…….. Webb zou zich het leven hebben benomen, door zich tweemaal door het hoofd te schieten…… Uiteraard werd Webb vermoord en wel in opdracht van de CIA, die hoogstwaarschijnlijk zelf de opdracht uitvoerde, dan wel door bendes waarmee de CIA samenwerkte……..
Na zijn dood ontstond er grote commotie, daar niemand het suïcide verhaal geloofde, op alle mogelijke manieren probeerde de overheid aan te tonen, dat het hier wel degelijk over suïcide ging….. Zelfs de vrouw van Webb werd zo onder druk gezet door de autoriteiten, ‘dat ze het met deze belachelijke conclusie eens was………’
Webb publiceerde over de cocaïne golf die de VS en m.n. Los Angelos overspoelde in de 80er jaren, het begin van de ‘crack epidemie’ in de VS. Webb toonde aan dat de CIA met de ‘Drug Ring’ zorgde dat grote hoeveelheden cocaïne L.A. bereikten…. Dit gebeurde middels een door de CIA opgezette leveringsroute tussen de drugskartels in Colombia en bepaalde wijken van Los Angelos (waar ook the Cribs en the Bloods hielpen met de verspreiding….)…..
Webb schreef een boek over deze zaak ‘Dark Allience’, aan de hand waarvan later ook een film zou worden gemaakt.
Overigens speelde ook de Washington Post in deze zaak een smerige rol, u weet wel dezelfde Washington Post, die met een zwarte lijst kwam van ‘nepnieuws verspreiders………….’
Met de cocaïne opbrengst bekostigde de CIA o.a. de contra’s in Nicaragua, die in dat land enorme oorlogsmisdaden begingen………….. De VS was later het eerste en enige land dat in de VN werd aangeklaagd voor staatsterreur, daar het mijnen liet leggen in de havens van Nicaragua
Op zaterdag 10 december jl. bracht Brasscheck TV het volgende bericht (herhaling uit 2014) met begeleidende video:
Silencing
real journalism
Today
is the anniversary of the day that investigative journalist Gary Webb
shot himself in the head TWICE.
Webb
is the man who documented the fact that the CIA was involved in
bringing tons of cocaine into the US that ended up on the streets of
America fueling the 1980s crack epidemic.
Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden, dit geldt niet voor de labels crack, drugskartel en Webb.
Oké mensen, het is geen nieuws, dat de VS terreurgroepen als IS, Al Qaida en al-Nusra van wapens voorzag (en voorziet), maar hoe meer bewijs er boven tafel komt, hoe beter!! Uit de gelekte internetberichten van Clinton, blijkt, dat ze hier zelfs een directe rol in heeft gespeeld!!
Het volgende artikel vond ik op het blog van Stan van Houcke, veiligheidsgordel vast? Daar gaat ‘ie:
Julian
Assange: “1,700 emails” proves Hillary Clinton sold weapons to
ISIS in Syria
Julian
Assange says “1,700 emails in Hillary Clinton’s collection”
proves she sold weapons to ISIS in Syria
The
Iran-Contra scandal almost brought down Reagan’s second
term.Essentially
Oliver North and other senior administration officials secretly
facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an
arms embargo.
The Reagan
administration officials hoped to secure the release of several
U.S. hostages, and then take proceeds from the arms sales to Iran, to
fund the Contras in Nicaragua.
Sounds
familiar?
In
Obama’s second term, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton authorized
the shipment of American-made arms to Qatar, a country beholden to
the Muslim Brotherhood, and friendly to the Libyan rebels, in an
effort to topple the Libyan/Gaddafi government, and then ship those
arms to Syria in order to fund Al Qaeda, and topple Assad in Syria.
Clinton
took the lead role in organizing the so-called “Friends of Syria”
(aka Al Qaeda/ISIS) to back the CIA-led insurgency for regime change
in Syria.
Hillary
said : “What difference does it make at this point?”
Under
oath Hillary Clinton denied she knew about the weapons shipments
during public testimony in early 2013 after the Benghazi attack.
In
an interview with Democracy Now, Wikileaks’ Julian Assange is now
stating that 1,700 emails contained in the Clinton cache directly
connect Hillary to Libya to Syria, and directly to Al Qaeda and ISIS.
Here
is the transcript and the revelation by Assange…
JUAN
GONZÁLEZ: Julian,
I want to mention something else. In March, you launched a searchable
archive for over 30,000 emails and email attachments sent to and from
Hillary Clinton’s private email server while she was secretary of
state. The 50,547 pages of documents span the time from June 2010 to
August 2014; 7,500 of the documents were sent by Hillary Clinton
herself. The emails were made available in the form of thousands of
PDFs by the U.S. State Department as the result of a Freedom of
Information Act request. Why did you do this, and what’s the
importance, from your perspective, of being able to create a
searchable base?
JULIAN
ASSANGE: Well,
WikiLeaks has become the rebel library of Alexandria. It is the
single most significant collection of information that doesn’t
exist elsewhere, in a searchable, accessible, citable form, about how
modern institutions actually behave. And it’s gone on to set people
free from prison, where documents have been used in their court
cases; hold the CIA accountable for renditions programs; feed
into election cycles, which have resulted in the termination of, in
some case—or contributed to the termination of governments, in some
cases, taken the heads of intelligence agencies, ministers of defense
and so on. So, you know, our civilizations can only be as good as our
knowledge of what our civilisation is. We can’t possibly hope to
reform that which we do not understand.
So,
those Hillary Clinton emails, they connect together with the cables
that we have published of Hillary Clinton, creating a rich picture of
how Hillary Clinton performs in office,but,
more broadly, how the U.S. Department of State operates. So, for
example, the disastrous, absolutely disastrous intervention in
Libya,the
destruction of the Gaddafi government, which led to the occupation of
ISIS of large segments of that country, weapons flows going over to
Syria, being pushed by Hillary Clinton, into jihadists within Syria,
including ISIS, that’s there in those emails. There’s more than
1,700 emails in Hillary Clinton’s collection, that we have
released, just about Libya alone.
Gistermiddag was ik even in de keuken bezig, de radio op BNR, waar BNR’s koekwous Hammelburg op de praatstoel zat. Ach je bent bezig en dan wil het .e.e.a. wel eens langs je heen gaan. Het gesprek ging over Obama en wat de BNR oliebol van diens presidentschap vond. De naam Reagan viel, daar werd onmiddellijk m’n aandacht door getrokken, zoals u zult begrijpen. Reagan, u weet wel de mislukte Hollywood koeienjongen, die eenzelfde ‘passie’ aan de dag legde, toen hij (hoe was ‘t godverdomme mogelijk!) president mocht spelen, dit wel na een staatsgreep, die via stiekeme afspraken met Iran en wapenleveranties aan dat land werd gepleegd……. Iets dat Hammelburg nog steeds afdoet als geruchten, terwijl er bewijs ligt van ongeveer een meter dik (als het al niet veel meer is!), ach ja, Hammelburg draagt de positieve VS propaganda (veelal geschiedvervalsing van de eerste orde), met grote graagte uit!
En ja hoor, daar zei flapdrol Hammelburg ‘t keihard: “Reagan was een goede president…” ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Hoewel Hammelburg daaraan voorafgaand opmerkte, dat Reagan niets had met buitenlandse politiek, maar ja, daar had hij z’n adviseurs voor…….. Reagan een goede president? Ten eerste al, zoals eerder geschreven, de smerige manier waarop hij het presidentschap verkreeg. Dan nog zijn rampzalige beleid, waarmee hij de VS aan de rand van de afgrond bracht. De VS had al een groot deel van de bevolking dat straatarm en kansloos was, dat deel werd onder Reagan een keer zo groot!! Of de totaal illegale acties in het buitenland, de militaire invallen, waarbij zelfs een democratisch gekozen regering letterlijk door de VS werd vervangen, door een dictatuur, die pro VS was….. Nee, geweldige vent die Reagan!! Of de levering van wapens aan de Taliban, alleen maar om Rusland dwars te zitten. Daarmee maakte Reagan ‘gemene zaak’ met religieuze fanaten.
Figuren als Hammelburg prijzen Reagan ook om zijn overwinning in de Koude Oorlog op de Sovjets, terwijl het Sovjetsysteem al in de 70er jaren op haar grondvesten wankelde, iets dat overigens bekend was in het Pentagon en bij organisaties als de CIA……. Wat de idioot Reagan wel voor elkaar kreeg was het eerder genoemde bijna faillissement van de VS, waar zoals gezegd de burgers in de VS en dan m.n. de grote onderlaag het slachtoffer was!! Wat dacht u verder van de geweldige prestatie van het mijnen leggen in de havens van Nicaragua, waarvoor de VS zelfs werd veroordeeld door het Internationaal Gerechtshof. Zo is de VS tot nu toe het enige ‘land’ dat wegens terrorisme werd veroordeeld (natuurlijk zonder enige consequentie, de VS zegde na die veroordeling, de deelneming aan dit gerechtshof op…)….
Dan heb ik nog niet gesproken over de enorme hoeveelheden cocaïne en andere drugs, die door de VS overheid, middels ‘undercover’ acties, de VS werden binnengebracht en daar op straat werden verkocht……. Het toppunt van dit willens en wetens drugs op de markt brengen, door de overheid, kwam onder Reagan tot grote bloei!! Terwijl onder zijn bewind, de gevangenissen vol stroomden met (gekleurde) drugsgebruikers, die door undercover dealers werden ingerekend……..
Nee, ‘echt een geweldige president’ die Reagan en een enorme opgeblazen nitwit oliebol, die Hammelburg!!!
Voor meer berichten over/met Hammelburg, Reagan, Nicaragua, Oliver North, Iran-Contra-Affaire, Internationaal Gerechtshof, CIA en/of koude oorlog, klik op het desbetreffende label, onder dit bericht.
Willem Post was vanmiddag te horen op Radio1, daar gaf hij een ‘analyse’ over het presidentschap van Jimmy Carter (90 jaar), dit n.a.v. diens opname in het ziekenhuis. De grote inflatie en werkloosheid onder Jimmy Carter zouden Reagan ( de volgende president van de VS) zijn winst hebben gegeven……
Carter stelde in zijn verkiezingscampagne dat het afgelopen moest zijn met het liegen van machthebbers in de VS, daar wreven de journalisten zich ‘natuurlijk’ in de handen, daar je altijd compromissen moet sluiten in de politiek, aldus Post. Je zou verwachten dat Post dan met voorbeelden zou komen, daar hij in feite stelt, dat ook Carter zou hebben gelogen, maar niets van dat alles…… Leuk ook, dat Post ervan uitgaat, dat zittende regeringen altijd liegen, terwijl hij in zijn andere suffe commentaren alleen Rusland, Griekenland en andere in zijn ogen foute regeringen, dan wel dictators, beschuldigt van liegen, dat zal je hem niet horen zeggen over onze regering, dan wel die van de VS…….. Maar ‘het was zo goed als gezegd’, ook Carter heeft gelogen, dat laatste blijft hangen en daar gaat ‘t om bij geschiedvervalsing……..
Al vrij vlot in het gesprek stelde Post, dat het presidentschap van Carter een inktzwart presidentschap was…….. Ja, hij noemde nog wel de eerste vorderingen met gesprekken tussen de Israëliërs en de Palestijnen, plus de verdere pogingen om tot vrede te komen in het Midden-Oosten, dat laatste was volgens Post toch eigenlijk mislukt, hoewel Carter wel vrede tussen Israël en Egypte voor elkaar kreeg…. Me dunkt geen geringe prestatie, waar je nog zijn inzet voor het arme deel van de VS en de wereld in het algemeen, bij op moet tellen. Een inzet ook t.b.v. goede huisvesting en sanitaire voorzieningen, voor arme mensen, waar dan ook, Carter was wat dat betreft eigenlijk de eerste grote machthebber, die e.e.a. op de ‘wereldkaart’ zette……..
Zelf was ik benieuwd naar wat Post zou zeggen over de gijzeling in 1979 van VS ambassadepersoneel in Iran, dit gebeurde onder Carter. Eerst stelde Post, dat dit 3 jaar duurde, maar even later werd dit teruggebracht naar ruim een jaar (14 maanden, om precies te zijn). Volgens Post werd er later gezegd, dat Reagan en zijn mannen die gijzeling hebben misbruikt, maar dat is nooit bewezen……… Godverdomme! Dat is wel bewezen: Carter had in het geheim een overeenkomst gesloten met het Iraanse bewind, waar de gijzelaars vrij zouden komen voor de verkiezingen. Met de ‘Iran-Contra-Affaire’ (ook wel ‘Irangate’ genoemd), bekonkelden Reagan en zijn staf, dat de gijzelaars pas na de verkiezingen zouden vrijkomen, zodat hij Carter daar mee onderuit kon halen en de verkiezingen kon winnen (in feite een staatsgreep). In ruil daarvoor kregen de Iraniërs grote hoeveelheden wapens (tegen betaling). Met dat geld werden illegale acties van o.a. Oliver North in Midden-Amerika bekostigd, zo werden de psychopathische ‘Contra’s’, die zich uiterst gewelddadig verzetten tegen de Nicaraguaanse regering van wapens en training voorzien, terwijl die Nicaraguaanse regering er een was, die zich voor het eerst sinds vele decennia inzette voor het volk. Een en ander werd geregeld via de door de CIA geparachuteerde president van Panama, Noriega (de coke-president die later terechtstond in de VS)……
Een en ander is intussen door diverse deskundigen uit en te na bewezen, maar dat past niet in het suffe pro-VS gelul van oliebol Post…….
Post kon er niet onderuit, Carter toch nog als uiterst humaan en sociaal weldenkend persoon af te schilderen, maar dat was van na zijn presidentschap, aldus Post. Al stelde hij nog wel enigszins sarcastisch, dat Carter zich de laatste decennia ook heeft ingezet voor de Palestijnen, iets dat hij gemeen heeft met van Agt (die daarvoor door Post en zijn colega’s wordt gehekeld)…….
Jezus wat een enorme berenlul, die Post!!
Voor meer berichten over Willem Post, Reagan, Iran en/of Nicaragua klik op het desbetreffende label, onder dit bericht.
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